Expect more enshittification coming your way.
Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.
But yeah, I don’t foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.
I don’t know, seems like being owned by Google would be worse. They kill stuff left and right.
But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.
Google’s involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.
Partially owned gives room for the product to stay alive. It being fully owned by Google makes it subject to being killed.
This worries me, i can see the new owners killing the Community edition and/or enshittifying the software to uselessness. Do we have a FOSS alternative that does the whole CI/CD pipeline too?
Gitea and forejo are doing some amazing work
Codeberg, but you have to manually apply for the CI/CD part. Also, Codeberg only allows you to host FOSS projects.
SourceHut is worth checking out. It leans towards minimal aesthetics, but is actually very functional. Granted, the workflow is quite different than other VCS providers, but you may grow into it, like I have :)
SourceHut burns my eyes. Has Drew (or someone to whom he has delegated such things) announced a dark mode yet?
BTW, SourceHut now automatically switches to light/dark mode based on your OS settings.
Unless I made a mistake checking it the last time, it’s like Drew saw your comment and took it personally xD
Haha… Maybe he keeps tabs on the fediverse?
It doesn’t work with Resist Fingerprinting mode (which hides OS settings), and doesn’t have a manual toggle that I can see, but does now have a
clause in its CSS. That’s a step in the right direction. :)Thanks for the tip!
What if source forge bought it lmao
This would explain why some people I know that work there are panicking.
Fuck
Let’s explore the scenarios
Scenario 1: GitLab is acquired by Google
Scenario 2: GitLab is acquired by Apple
Scenario 3: GitLab is acquired by a State government
Scenario 4: Gitlab is acquired by Amazon
Scenario 5: Gitlab is acquired by the Linux Foundation
Scenario 6: Gitlab is acquired by the Federal Government
Scenario 7: Gitlab is acquired by IBM
What if JetBrains bought it though
Scenario 8: Gitlab is acquired by Wal*Mart
I don’t think tech people understand how bad it is that Microsoft owns GitHub.
GitLab is one of the few places people could go if GitHub enshittifies too much. Google’s stake in it (or full ownership of it) would probably be a good thing, because it would be seen as an important strategic hedge against Microsoft. If it’s bought by a smaller player, I can see GitHub squeezing it into irrelevance.
